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7. Laying night-lines, snares, or devices of any kind, 

 for catching fish, without leave from the owner, 

 subjects to heavy fines : if done at night, subjects to 

 transportation. 



a, In the Thames, and wherever the waters are under 

 the controul of Corporations, no person is allowed to 

 use a bottom-line before the first day of June, under 

 penalty of 20 /. and forfeiting his rod, &c. The season 

 properly concludes on the 15th of November, but is 

 not much noticed; though few persons chuse to 

 angle later. The fly may be used all the year round. 



9. The following sizes are laid down as standards ; 

 below which no lishes are allowed to be taken by net. 

 No salmon Or trouts, when out of season. (The query 



is, who shall determine this point) ? 

 No pike under ten inches from eye to tail. 

 No smelt under five inches, 

 No larlel under twelve inches. 



N B. It is curious to observe that the legislature have 

 been very careful of swells and larlel, but have 

 omitted carp, perch, tench, &c. from the protec- 

 tion thus afforded. We may perhaps reasonably 

 infer, that those who drew up this incoherent code, 

 were not much given to angling. 



10. All persons, fishing in private waters, armed, or any 

 way disguised, or committing any waste on the said 

 property, thus armed or disguised, are deemed felons, 

 without benefit of clergy. 



THE END. 



Printed by B. McMillan, j 

 low-Street, Covent-Garden. * 



